JH2's Q&A profile

• Windows Forms access data... access...

  Hi, I'm trying to handle a simple structured access db in c#... but I'm a bit confused on how to do it! How can I select, insert, edit and remove records from an access database  should I use datasets Thanks another thing: how&nbs ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions referencing files in application dir

  Hi, Some help please I have the following line of code which sets the path to the xml file Dim datafilepath1 As String = "c:\settingsdata.xml" In VB 6 I could use the folllowing so that the path to the file will be in the directory where the application files reside so I don't have to worry about where the program resides on the computer. =App.Path & "\" & "settingsdata.xml" I have tr ...Show All

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Going nuts here.....

  Ok...I have scoured the Internet from MSDN to Google trying to find the answer to this one.... As I am new to the whole DirectX scene, I was viewing the Webcast for using C# with DirectX in game development, namely the Star Trooper game, if anybody has seen that one. I originally could not build the downloaded projects without many errors, but I installed the April sdk and now I can build all of them. The Problem is that when I Publish ...Show All

• Visual Basic Add connection wizard fails with Access database

  I have the RTM version installed. I am quite puzzled at this wizard. It works fine with SqlClient. But for Access databases, this wizard completely fails. In this wizard, I only have one option to do - setting the ConnectionString. I set it to Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=D:\path\abc.mdb, which works fine in my code. But when I click OK, it complains: --------------------------- Microsoft Visual Studio --------------------------- ...Show All

• Visual Basic StopWatch Sample in 101 samples

  Just downloaded and modified the stopwatch from 101 samples, nice job! I am a PE teacher, and want to create a Timer for this stop watch ap.  Count Down timers are very important, and I have a Large Screen in my Gym/Smart Board that I would love to display a countdown timer on, and of course the StopWatch I - you created. How would I implement the timer functionality I know how to get the time into a text box or Label (Web), but how do I s ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions combobox Columns in datagridview

  hi, i have a datagridview contains 2 comboboxcolumns, i want when i select  a value from the first column the second column will be  filtered, for example  first column contain varity of items like (iron, cloths ... etc) second column contains all type of units if its iron was selected in first column the second column will display just  kg, and ton. but if its cloths was selected in the first ...Show All

• .NET Development Recursing Using the Directory Class

  Hi folks, I haven't used the Directory class before (actually I haven't done any I/O in .NET yet) - I'm just wondering what the standard method of recursing down through all subfolders (and all files in those folders) in a given folder is For example, if I specify drive C: as my starting folder, I'd like to open that, perform an operation on all files in the folder, then open the first subfolder and repeat. When I reach a subfolder where I'v ...Show All

• Windows Forms Redraw control after window has hovered over it

  Hi! I'm writing a custom control and have a problem when the controls needs to redraw itself. Specifically, it's when you drag, for example, another window over my application's form containing the control. The redrawing of the control doesn't happen or the redrawing is incomplete. I already set the ControlStyles AllPaintingInWmPaint, DoubleBuffer, ResizeRedraw and UserPaint . I'm overriding the OnPaintBackground to draw a series of lines, ...Show All

• Visual Studio SourceSafe Web Service Configuration

  A collegue of mine has just setup a SourceSafe 2005 database and configured it for internet web service access. I have Team Suite installed including SourceSafe 2005, but I am unable to find an option anywhere which would allow me to connect to it. I can connect over a local LAN or over the net via file sharing, but I can't find the web service protocol. I was informed this feature was in Beta 1. Anyone know what happened to it I  ...Show All

• SQL Server Creating tables with variables value???

  Hi I would like to know how can I create a table with a veriable from my code. This is my code: DECLARE @MTH INT DECLARE @MTH2 INT DECLARE @DAY INT DECLARE @BGN DATETIME DECLARE @END DATETIME DECLARE @ENDI INT DECLARE @DTCTRL DATETIME DECLARE @TBLNAME TABLE (NOME VARCHAR(30))   --||_@MTH _ ===>_RANGE_MONTH/DAYS___||  SET @MTH = 11 + 1   _RANGE_MONTH">--||_@MTH2_===>_RANGE_MONTH ________||  SET @MTH2 = 5  --||______ ...Show All

• Windows Forms Setting DatagridView column type as Combo after databind

  Hi, We’re using a datagridview in our winforms prj .. Problem is this .. We have a grid say with 10 columns .. 3 columns are combo’s. ways to go about it are .. 1. set the column heading and column type at design time .. retrieve the records then databind. But in this case .. a new set of columns will be created. In this scenario, is there a way where I can set the column type of the datagrid view to a datagridviewcombobox colu ...Show All

• Windows Forms ComboBox with custom back color for each item

  how can i have a combobox that can hold items with custom back colors for each item. i want to be able to specify the back color of each item when adding it to the combo thx, samham thx cwilliams1145 for the reply i will try& ...Show All

• .NET Development Dynamic creation of XSLT from C#

  Hi, This is my first posting, 1. From C# i want to create a new XSL 2 . can i append XSL file fromm C# , is it possible if so how can any one hep me out thanks Radhkrishnan.K thanks for your reply, Dynamically i want to alter the XSL file or i have to create the XSL file, that is my requirement, because I am converting one form of XML to another form of XML using XSL,C#, the s ...Show All

• Visual C++ no getopt in Visual C++???

  Hi,    Can somebody help me out here.  I wrote this program under UNIX and Linux.  I used the C function "getopt()" to test for a command line option of "-x" when a user of my program wants debugging messages printed to the terminal along with output.  The only problem is that when I copy and paste the same set of files that comprise this program into Visual C++ , I get c:\Documents and Settings\Sean Williams\My Docum ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista WWF or Skelta

  I need to design a workflow application. If we set aside the fact that the WWF is still in beta phase, what would you recommend ; skelta or WWF. I think that WWF misses some features like email etc but has a strong support. Skelta makes the work very tedious like mentioning the workflow variables in different xml's, using its own libraries to access database etc. Please give recommendations with reasons in support Thanks in adv ...Show All